BCLA CLEAR-Contact lens wettability, cleaning, disinfection and interactions with tears

M Willcox, N Keir, V Maseedupally, S Masoudi… - Contact Lens and …, 2021 - Elsevier
Contact lens materials have undergone significant changes over the past 20 years,
particularly with respect to the introduction of silicone hydrogel materials. Whilst this …

Why are soft contact lens wear discontinuation rates still too high?

CW McMonnies - Expert Review of Ophthalmology, 2023 - Taylor & Francis
Introduction Notwithstanding continuing improvements in contact lens technology and
increasing use of daily disposables, discontinuations from soft contact lens wear remain a …

Pre-lens tear meniscus height, lipid layer pattern and non-invasive break-up time short-term changes with a water gradient silicone hydrogel contact lens

R Capote-Puente, MJ Bautista-Llamas, C Manzoni… - Life, 2022 - mdpi.com
To evaluate pre-lens tear film volume, stability and lipid interferometry patterns with a
silicone hydrogel water content contact lens, a novel, noninvasive, ocular-surface-analyzer …

Tear film characteristics during wear of daily disposable contact lenses

G Montani, M Martino - Clinical Ophthalmology, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
Purpose To evaluate changes induced over time by three daily disposable (DD) contact
lenses on tear meniscus height (TMH), pre-lens non-invasive break-up time (pre-lens …

The relationship of pre-corneal to pre-contact lens non-invasive tear breakup time

AD Graham, MC Lin - PloS one, 2021 - journals.plos.org
Purpose To examine the relationship between pre-corneal and pre-contact lens tear film
stability (TFS), and to determine whether pre-corneal TFS is a reliable predictor of …

Randomized crossover trial of silicone hydrogel contact lenses

M García-Montero, L Rico-del-Viejo… - Contact Lens and …, 2019 - Elsevier
Purpose The aim of the current study is to assess, using new technologies, the interaction of
four monthly silicone hydrogel contact lenses on the ocular surface and the comfort over 15 …

An emerging method to assess tear film spread and dynamics as possible tear film homeostasis markers

JV García-Marqués, C Talens-Estarelles… - Current Eye …, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
Purpose: This study aims to assess the performance of an analysis method to measure in
vivo the movement speed of tear film particles post-blink as a measure of tear film spreading …

Supporting dry eye diagnosis with a new method for noninvasive tear film quality assessment

C Llorens-Quintana, D Szczesna-Iskander… - Optometry and Vision …, 2019 - journals.lww.com
PURPOSE The purpose of this study was to evaluate the efficacy of a recently proposed
method for characterizing tear film dynamics using noninvasive high-speed …

Effects of blink rate on tear film optical quality dynamics with different soft contact lenses

M García-Montero, L Rico-del-Viejo… - Journal of …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Objective. The aim of this study was to investigate tear film optical quality dynamics for four
types of silicone hydrogel contact lenses (SHCLs) for daily wear over a 15‐day period and …

Ability of non-invasive tear break-up time to determine tear instability in contact lens wearers

E Muhafiz, MS Demir - International Ophthalmology, 2022 - Springer
Purpose To evaluate the performance of precorneal and prelens non-invasive tear break-up
time (NIBUT) measurements to determine tear instability in contact lens (CL) wearers …